Kickended by Silvio Lorusso is online database artwork archiving the Kickstarted campaigns that got not even a single penny. This competitive aesthetics of failure has been able to attract the attention of major national newspapers (from the British “The Guardian” to the Italian “Corriere della Sera”).

Graphic Constellations: Visual Poetry and the Properties of Space, it’s an exhibition celebrating the 50th anniversary of the First International Exhibition of Concrete, Kinetic and Phonic Poetry held in Cambridge in late 1964. Curated by Bronac Ferran and Will Hill at the Ruskin Gallery in Cambridge, UK (Image: ‘Poemkon=D=4=Open=Apollinaire’).

The Pirate Bay computers and servers have been seized by Swedish Police on a data center in Nacka (Greater Stockholm). It’s offline since December 9. http://torrentfreak.com/swedish-police-raid-the-pirate-bay-site-offline-141209/

“Art Post-Internet” was an exhibition curated by Karen Archey and Robin Peckham for the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing in spring 2014. This is the specially designed pdf catalogue whose with the front page is created each time with the IP and quite approximated location of the user. It includes tentatively definition of “post-internet” by Cory Arcangel, Simon Denny, and Bunny Rogers, art critics Ben Davis and Paddy Johnson, academics Mark Tribe and Esther Choi, and museum professionals Christiane Paul, Raffael Dörig, Jamillah James, Ben Vickers, Omar Kholeif and Gene McHugh.

C. Doswald, K. Ottmann, B. Schroder – Carsten Nicolai, Static Fades

book – JRP Ringier – ISBN13: 9783905770636
Carsten Nicolai is a unique case in the sound art world. Somehow he’s the prototypal of the ideal contemporary sound artists: not classifiable merely as a musician, nor as an artist, but perfectly in between. He excellently combines technical and scientific knowledge with a clear vision. Especially being fond in science principles and practical use, he reflects the simple and purest beauty of involved structures, embodying it in a personal view that translates into perfectly balanced design. The “minimal” adjective, so often used to categorize his work, tells only 1/10th of the story. His art is more generally about “building beautiful systems”, whose rules are gently disrupting our acquired scientific knowledge. In this sense he can be easily considered a scientist, using art as inspiration for new methodologies. After the huge catalogue produced for his Frankfurt Schirn Kunsthalle personal exhibition, this book is its ideal companion, documenting in a similar style his works (Nicolai was an editor here as well), and their characteristics of space, scale, recurrence and generation. It’s another tour of its evolution, tracking different milestones and making once more worth the visual and theoretical journey.